Improvement in carbureters



1. W. SHALER.

Carbuneters.

" N0; 143,534. Patented Oct. 7,1873.

Inn/ENTER.

IRA W. SHALER, OF IEROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARBURETERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.14l3,534, dated October7,1873; application filed March 29, 1873.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, I. W. SHALER, of Brooklyn, county of Kings and Stateof New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inApparatus for Surcharging'Atmosphere with Hydrocarbon, of which thefollowing is a specification:

t The nature of my invention relates to an improvement in carburetng air5 and consists in, first, regulating the flame by controlling the amountof air admitted to the carburetingchamber; second, placing the cotton,wool, or other absorbent material within a coil of wire, and thenplacing a number of these coils within a suitablyshaped wire-gauze framein the carbureting-chamber; third, in the arrangement and combination ofparts, which -will be more fully described hereafter.

Figure l is a vertical section of my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail viewof a modification.

a represents the frame of my carbureter, which may be of any desiredshape or size, and which is provided with any suitable number of pipes,c, which conduct the carbureted air away to the burners. Passing up thesides and over the top, so as to conduct the air into the top of thecarbureting-chamber through the opening` c, are the flues orair-passages g.

The admission of the air into the chamber is regulated by a valve, i,having a screw-stem,

Z, for adjusting it, so that the air can be admitted in any desiredquantity or shut off altogether. As fast as the air admitted becomescharged with the hydrocarbon vapor it at once sinks to the bottom of thechamber, and from thence through the pipes c to the burners. Byregulating the quantity of air admitted, the amount of vapor or gasgenerated is kept under the most perfect control, and by closing thevalve entirely the burners are at once extinguished.

The cotton, wool, or other absorbent material is inclosed in wire-coilso, made in the same manner as coiled springs, and then placed lin a boxor other shaped receptacle, made of line wire cloth or gauze, in thecarbureting chamber. Heretofore this material has been placed inperforated tin cylinders, but these cylinders are not only costly tomake, but in "stamping the holes through them the metal is exposed tothe corroding effects of the hydrocarbon fluid. Another defect is, thecylinders prevent the air from coming in contact at once with thesaturated material contained 'within them, and, as a consequence, ittakes the air a long time to become carbonized and to give f a flamethat will not flicker in burning.

The wire coils not only answer all the purposes of the cylinders, butare cheaper and allow the air to come in contact at once with thematerial, so thata steady flame is produced from the very first.

Instead of the coils being packed in a wirecloth box, as shown in Fig.l, they may be stood upon their ends either in one large cylinder thatwill completely fill the chamber, or there may be a number of themplaced side by side.

The hydrocarbon fluidis poured in through the top of the cylinder untilit begins to run out of a small stop-cock placed in the side some littledistance above the bottom when the chamber is charged.

I do not wish to claim broadly the use of fibrous material inclosed inwire-gauze, for I am aware that such is not now new-witness patentissued to me November 16, 1869, nor do I wish to claim as my inventionthe'manufacture of an illuminating gas from the vapor of gasoline, whenthe apparatus used is placed above the point of combustion and soarranged that the gas is distributed to the burners by its own gravity,for I am aware that such is not now new; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,isv 1. The regulating valve t' in combination with iiues g,substantially as shown and described.

2. Thewire-coil po, for holding the absorbent material7 substantially as-described.

3. The flues or passages g applied to a carbureter, as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I hereunto afxmy signature this a7 th day of March, 1873. Y

A IRA NV. SHALER.

IVitnesses W. K. DUHAMEL, ALEX. DAvinsoN.

